LUCKY MINERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2656, 8 May 1894, Page 4

LUCKY MINERS.

A wonderfully rich patch of gold has been struck by two miners at Daylesford. The two men, named White and Jackson, have been prospecting for a quartz lode in a place called Welcome Gully, and so it has proved to them. Ou the 9th of February last one of Jackson’s sons buried his pick in a small quartz vein, and a second blow brought down a solid mas# of gold. Though the quartz held together by the metal weighed only 159 ounces, and eapm from a crevice 12in long by 4iu in width, ft w aa worth over £(500, This encouraged them to follow the vein, and the drive was extended another 70ft or 80ft. Stope and .casings worth an ounce to th# ton were met all the way, but nothing sensational was alighted upon until ab mt teu days ago. The owners then decided to come back to where the rich pocket was discovered and a winze. They had only gone a couple <£ feet on the underlie when they struck of 2520 z of stone, which gave nz pf gold. Four days after a third pod:?* $ PM}} weight of stone returned 32On;;; iiex* day I ‘-lb gfiye 130 oz, and on Thursday dfi'dnz of gUui'T-: gave (ho magnificent yield of -1- Uoz of gold. The total amount, of gn) I won .since February oth is j.3j{soz, valued at £4873, from about l}cwt of stone.